Guys....for those of you who don't mind swinging an APC 20X10 prop (or an APC 20X11), and want a killer motor for the 70-71" planes (and possibly the 72" Extra), try the Hacker A60-6XS. Tons of power, and great battery efficiency!!
I have and A60-6XS in my 70" Slick, and an A50-16S in my new Velox, and am using the same batteries in both planes. The A60 gives me 6.5 minutes and when recharged, only puts about 2200-2500mAH back into my 6S 5000mAH 65C Thunder Power packs. After maidening my Velox yesterday, (and as noted using the same packs), I recharged them when I got home and on 6 minute flights, they took 3340, and 3370mAH on the two packs.
Granted, I probably don't push my planes as hard as some of you might, but, my Slick pulls from hover with no problems at all!!
The motor is a bit more expensive, and you have to re-drill new motor mount holes if replacing a Hacker A50 series, but again, I think you will like it.

For my electric setup, I was planning on using a spare ar600 I have laying around. I understand the logic behind the sat receiver but I using about 4x ar600 in other planes without any issues. What do you guys think? Should I spring for the ar6210 or higher?

For my electric setup, I was planning on using a spare ar600 I have laying around. I understand the logic behind the sat receiver but I using about 4x ar600 in other planes without any issues. What do you guys think? Should I spring for the ar6210 or higher?

Taken from the Horizon site....

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The AR600 is the affordable way to equip your sport plane or trainer with the speed, and reliability of DSMX control.

To me....sport plane and especially trainer means something in-expensive that won't set you back a bunch of bucks if you crash it..... And with that carbon content that is in the Slick, I think it is best to have at least one, if not two satellite receivers in it.....but that is just my opinion, and I am really finicky about receiver placement etc... but then I usually buy (since I have a 9 channel radio [an X9503], the R921 or R921X (the R921 was the predecessor of the R921X) receivers, as I also use Castle BEC Pro BEC's and like having the dual power ports (though of course you can actually plug the second power lead into any spare port on the other receivers.)

Steve, thanks for your reply...didnt think about the carbon in the fuse. If I did get a higher end spektrum are we talking ar7010?

That should work, but then so should the AR6210, as they are essentially the same receiver, but the seven channel has one more channel) but again, they only have one satellite receiver. I would get one of the 9" or 12" satellite receiver leads though, so you can spread them out a bit..

That should work, but then so should the AR6210, as they are essentially the same receiver, but the seven channel has one more channel) but again, they only have one satellite receiver. I would get one of the 9" or 12" satellite receiver leads though, so you can spread them out a bit..

I use the AR7000s (the predecessor to the AR7010) in my 57-59" planes

SteveT

Cant speak for the 6210 but the 6200 was the only spektrum RX that ever gave me trouble....sold all of those and went to the AR7000 and never had another issue. Ild use a 7000 or higher...heck I just saw a guy selling some used ones for $60 each in the classifieds.

Same here - I also had problems with several 6200's but not with other models.
Now I'm using DSMX from both Spektrum and JR for all new applications.

Joe

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Cant speak for the 6210 but the 6200 was the only spektrum RX that ever gave me trouble....sold all of those and went to the AR7000 and never had another issue. Ild use a 7000 or higher...heck I just saw a guy selling some used ones for $60 each in the classifieds.

It is officially an airplane. I am going to love this plane. I did not get a finished weight with the Gens Ace 5300's but it does not fly heavy in any way, in fact it floats a lot on landing. I flew 8 minutes and had 40%capacity left. Ton's of power with the Motrolfly 4325-310 combo.

Slow speed flight is like my foamy but way more stable. I thought I had the CG on the LE of the wing tube but it felt more aft to me and it actually was slightly aft of the LE. I am new to 3D but found this pretty easy to hover. It snaps nice and I like to do tumbles and it did not disappoint. Power off high speed tumble completed an easy 3 tumble rotation and recovery was very easy.

Thanks to all who helped me get going with this. Special thanks to Losi and rcbirk who both answered many PM's, and Josh "BoneDoc" who spent a lot of time talking with me at the Grapevine fly-in.

Woo Hoo!

Nice job this morning Ray; glad I was there for the maiden flight. The orange/white is a great color scheme and the 71 Slick look majestic in the air.

Wing came off in the air. The wing bolts came down intact to the wing so they pulled out from the fuse side. wing tube broke although not sure if this was from ground impact or in the air.

I was changing from 8S to 6S and had string around the wing tube to verify balance. took off the string, ran up 1750 watts with A50-12L. Straight and level flight, checking CG, wing came off, went in. I think I forgot to tighten up the wing bolts.